Its funny you mention that. I somehow had a bottle in the cupboard a good few months ago and I love a good sour. It was without doubt one of the most disappointing sours I've had. It was almost seltzer like (now they are the most disappointing drink I've ever had!) and just didn't have any tartness to it (i do like insanely sour sours though!). The only other one of late I've had was a birthday gift of porters and Zombie Cake was in it. I was really looking forward to trying that too as a praline chocolate porter, but again, it wasn't as sweet or as smooth as I expected it to be and there are so many amazing selections out there now that it just waned in comparison to others I've liked. On the positive side, I've a lot of respect for the principles of the company and how they've acted to assist with sanitizer in the pandemic. We've even got a share somewhere from back in the day when they did a cap raise to expand the brewery. They've also done a lot to change beer drinking in the uk with higher abv's, very different styles back in the day and varying glass sizes on strength. All good progress. Not to mention the collabs. Sadly, I've just not found a beer of theirs that I enjoy especially. Years ago I think it might have been in Nottingham or Birmingham, and I had a porter that had raspberry or cranberry in it, and that was good, but that was a long time ago. I would add, once travel recommences, if anyone goes to Rome. Theres a BrewDog in a fantastic spot up a side street just by the Colosseum.
See, this is why I stopped bothering with the Romance languages and their bloody gendered words! English did the right thing in getting rid of them in the middle ages. It is indeed the old MC Mills.
That's the one we're doing with True Reds BBQ. When things open up (and that opens up) I'll probably go and work there for the day. Will give you a nudge when I do and shout you a pint.
I'm a regular visitor to Maison du Biere and was chatting to the owner last week. The new place in town is going to be ace, it's a similar model to the shop at Heritage centre but bigger. Looking at around 30 taps for craft beers, seating around 60 for on trade and a bigger bottle and cans offer than at Elsecar. As Jamo says, it's the old Mills place, so there's lots of outdoor space and they're planning to put food events on there. Should be open from around April if all goes well, though likely starting with the shop. Seriously good addition to the town, almost makes me look forward to when I can work in an office again so I have to be in town!
That really does sound fantastic. Barnsley's had some great new places open recently but many of them are focused on cocktails and gin, with the odd token Camden Pale or Brooklyn Lager on tap - chuffed there's going to be a hub for craft beer and street food and the like.
Not a fan of Brewdog for ethical reasons. They try to give off an image that they’re an ethical company by pulling stunts like this, but in reality they’re one of the most unethical brands I can think of. They have a reputation for stealing names, then suing whatever small family-run brewery actually came up with the name for copyright breach. They throw their ‘big corporation’ legal weight around a lot, and always screw independent businesses. They even stole ideas from job applicants.
Never had a bad Amundsen yet. There’s loads of nice beers out there. Yorkshire’s Northern Monk, Magic rock and Vocation
love Amundsens dessert in a can range. And omnipollo. And moncada’s impy custard. Tiny rebels double 99 is very chocolate too. Though my current favourites are the vocation barrel aged series. The kirsch one.... just amazing
If anyone loves castleford Pontefract way then try the market tap - brilliant beers he does take out from pump at the moment and his cans are all excellent . Really sound guy too. Opened just as lockdown hit so it’s one that really needs supporting as much as possible
We get the northern monk monthly random delivery (next one due any time) and been surprised how few stouts there have been... there was an oat wine last month which took some drinking!
Ok. Just to clarify a few things here as this is a common assumption based on headlines. We're the world's first and only carbon negative brewery. We remove twice as much carbon out of the air than we produce and we're fast-tracking to make that three times. Where Amazon and other big companies are targeting 2030 or even 2050 to become carbon neutral (not negative) we've gone one further. BrewDog have twice (maybe three times) been name a Sunday Times Top 100 Employer. We don't have a reputation for stealing names and haven't tried to sue a family-run brewery to my knowledge. We did however once try to protect the Trademark for LoneWolf and got that incredibly wrong, but we owned our mistakes on that and made peace with the Wolf Bar in Birmingham (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-10-biggest-mistakes-brewdogs-ceo-james-watt/). We don't steal ideas from job applicants. The story you're referring to is the applicant in the US who sent an invoice for her time (at an hourly rate that would have made her the highest paid person in BrewDog) when she didn't get the job. She also tried to invoice us for the BrewDog cookies she had made. She was unsuccessful in her application and didn't have any ideas stolen - but there was a dispute at the same time with a creative agency around an idea and people blurred the lines. Again resolved and the claim was false. How do we always screw independent businesses when we work with so many independent businesses? All our bars are committed to reserving two lines for local craft that the GM has full autonomy on who they buy from. That's 128 beer lines in the UK that pour beer from independent breweries. We also invested in Brew By Numbers when they first started, and have given out grants and loans to other startup breweries. It's fine not to like BrewDog (plenty don't - my friends included) so I'm not defensive there. But working for them I can't not challenge you on some of those claims you just made.
